Can I request to speak to an English person?

sorn21 · 23 Jul 2009 at 18:42

Phate said:
I don't want to speak to someone who floated over on a door.

I actually spat over my screen! AAAHAHAHA

Azagoth · 23 Jul 2009 at 18:42

Voltar said:
i was trolling, my apologies. It was mainly due to the Kinder people getting on high horses which irritated me a lot.

I see, I haven't bothered to wade through that Kinder thread yet. Worth a read?

muon · 23 Jul 2009 at 18:43

SB118 said:
What attitude? He wants to have his finances dealt with by somebody who can count in english, not a huge expectation is it?

Go ahead and say you don't want to speak to someone "who floated across on a door" and see what CS do.

Phate · 23 Jul 2009 at 18:43

Well I politely asked, the conversation went something like this

Them: Hello welcome to Lloyds TSB, can I take your account number
Me: Hi there, sorry but would it be possible to speak to an English person? I'm having some trouble understanding your accent
Them: What is wrong with my accent?
Me: I'm having trouble understanding it.
Them: It's people like you that make this country ignorant [/phone call]

After a second or so I get to speak to Oliver who turns out grew up in Leicester!

muon · 23 Jul 2009 at 18:44

So you didnt actually establish any problem with communication? Your first sentence was to ask for an english person?

SB118 · 23 Jul 2009 at 18:44

ghost101 said:
Go ahead and say you don't want to speak to someone "who floated across on a door" and see what CS do.

How about "i'd like to speak with somebody who's family isn't reliving a tribal fued started 300 years ago", would that be better?

TheCenturion · 23 Jul 2009 at 18:44

Phate said:
Well I politely asked, the conversation went something like this

Them: Hello welcome to Lloyds TSB, can I take your account number
Me: Hi there, sorry but would it be possible to speak to an English person? I'm having some trouble understanding your accent
Them: What is wrong with my accent?
Me: I'm having trouble understanding it.
Them: It's people like you that make this country ignorant [/phone call]

After a second or so I get to speak to Oliver who turns out grew up in Leicester!

serves you right! I helped you wire up the computers man, and you're still ignorant about Indians!

Makunouchi · 23 Jul 2009 at 18:45

Hard to know what emphasis was put on what words etc, but if that's verbatim the conversation you had it sounds like they need a slap.

Phate · 23 Jul 2009 at 18:45

ghost101 said:
So you didnt actually establish any problem with communication? Your first sentence was to ask for an english speaking person?

The person did have a thick accent, but the accent annoys me and winds me up so I wanted an English accent. In this case it was someone from oop norf!

Doctor_Zhivago · 23 Jul 2009 at 18:46

In the supermarket I always go to the till with the white person, even if the line is longer. The once I just bought a tin of pork dog food and I went to the till with the muslim women with the thing on her head.

4T5 · 23 Jul 2009 at 18:46

Next time just sing Land of Hope & Glory down the phone repeatedly until you here an Englishman.

Phate · 23 Jul 2009 at 18:46

anant_shah94 said:
serves you right! I helped you wire up the computers man, and you're still ignorant about Indians!

Your not even bloody Indian!

Infact, if anything. We were working for Indians, who had an arguement, in Indian right infront of me. Then expected me to 'deal with it'

Lovely

Voltar · 23 Jul 2009 at 18:47

Azagoth said:
I see, I haven't bothered to wade through that Kinder thread yet. Worth a read?

Yes it got amusing and then cringe-worthy and even spilled into a football fan forum last night. Read from maybe page 15/16/17. Quite amusing really, but cringe-worthy towards the end.
Give it a go.

Raikiri · 23 Jul 2009 at 18:48

Moses99p said:
An accent winds you up to the extent you can't communicate with someone with said accent? Wow :|.

Hi there,

Birmingham.

TheCenturion · 23 Jul 2009 at 18:48

Doctor_Zhivago said:
In the supermarket I always go to the till with the white person, even if the line is longer. The once I just bought a tin of pork dog food and I went to the till with the muslim women with the thing on her head.

And was there any problem with that?

Some people on here are just so rude! I'm scared of white people tbh.

SB118 · 23 Jul 2009 at 18:48

Doctor_Zhivago said:
...once I just bought a tin of pork dog food and I went to the till with the muslim women with the thing on her head.

Ninja mask? Paper bag? Bubble hat? Details man, details!

iamdjdz · 23 Jul 2009 at 18:48

Azagoth said:
I see, I haven't bothered to wade through that Kinder thread yet. Worth a read?

Yep, and a vote

Phate said:
Well I politely asked, the conversation went something like this

Them: Hello welcome to Lloyds TSB, can I take your account number
Me: Hi there, sorry but would it be possible to speak to an English person? I'm having some trouble understanding your accent
Them: What is wrong with my accent?
Me: I'm having trouble understanding it.
Them: It's people like you that make this country ignorant [/phone call]

After a second or so I get to speak to Oliver who turns out grew up in Leicester!

So they hung up on you the first time? Then you got an English person?

Raikiri · 23 Jul 2009 at 18:49

anant_shah94 said:
And was there any problem with that?

Some people on here are just so rude! I'm scared of white people tbh.

He's a troll and you're racist if you're scared of white people because they're white

TheCenturion · 23 Jul 2009 at 18:49

Phate said:
Your not even bloody Indian!

Infact, if anything. We were working for Indians, who had an arguement, in Indian right infront of me. Then expected me to 'deal with it'

Lovely

I am Indian, I spoke to you while we wired up the pc's in my dad's office, do you not remember? Mind you, you've probably done so many offices since then...

And there is no language known as Indian, just like there is no language called Chinese

TheCenturion · 23 Jul 2009 at 18:50

Raikiri said:
He's a troll and you're racist if you're scared of white people because they're white

It's a well known fact that white people are the scariest race